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Brian Patrick Eha
@brianeha
Essayist, journalist, author, critic | CUJ grad | Tweeting literature, history, ideas | Connecting dots | Essays upcoming on Celan, Johnson, Malaparte, the moon
New York, NY
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Nov 21, 2025
    It was kind of a blackpill for me when I realized that most of the great writing of the past would never have existed if it had been forced to go through the kind of editorial committee process that we've since made mandatory. So I wrote an essay about it for @hedgehogreview. 👇
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Jun 26, 2024
    I have only just found out that Jane Austen sent cross-written letters like a psychopath.
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Oct 5, 2018
    Replying to @juliaioffe
    You have correctly identified the fact that the U.S. is not a direct democracy and was never intended to be.
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    May 14, 2024
    Replying to @mike_sell
    So the student gets an F, right? That is the only way this stops.
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Apr 9, 2017
    One of the single greatest paragraphs of any restaurant review I've ever read. gu.com/p/687qz @jayrayner1 eviscerates Le Cinq.
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    May 29, 2020
    "By Thursday morning, what had been an active construction site was reduced to a pile of smoldering ashes atop what was left of the concrete first-floor space." The rioters in Minneapolis destroyed what could have been homes for 189 low-income families. startribune.com/minneapolis-va…
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Sep 26, 2015
    Schopenhauer explains how to deal with the social web. (h/t @m_clem)
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Aug 28, 2023
    Replying to @McJunegrand and @TheLincoln
    It's completely legitimate for one author to criticize another author's writing. Arguably far more legitimate than to criticize another author's personal behavior.
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Oct 26, 2023
    So many people who are politically committed to denying, problematizing, or overturning every possible binary in human life remain stubbornly committed to the binary of oppressor/oppressed—and see all of history, all of modern society, all of geopolitics through that fogged lens.
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Aug 16, 2025
    Replying to @christopherrufo and @NewYorker
    Don't forget her sheer ahistorical stupidity. Did she ever actually believe that everyone besides Europeans "lived in perfect harmony" with nature? Does she believe it now? In another tweet she blames white people for syphilis, which the evidence suggests came from the Americas
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Mar 28, 2025
    Replying to @InezFeltscher
    If a woman as intelligent and fair-minded as you, in a relationship as stable and healthy as yours seems to be (hi Jarrett!) has never till now considered what the mental burden of being the backstop provider must be like, I can only imagine how far it is from most women's minds.
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Jun 28, 2024
    The cover of my copy of "Lolita" has a quote from Vanity Fair that calls it (I'm quoting from memory) "the only convincing love story of our century."
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Feb 1, 2018
    Replying to @mewo2 and @oleganza
    I love that "nice" derives from Latin and Old French words meaning "ignorant." Sounds about right.
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    Brian Patrick Eha
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    Jun 9, 2025
    Replying to @growing_daniel
    Derek is low-key one of the worst people on this app. Deporting him would be legendary.
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